Ngagi Wangpo

Ngagi Wangpo (

Phagmodrupa Dynasty

, which was the leading regime of central Tibet from 1354 to 1435 and maintained a certain political role until the early 17th century.

Appointment

Ngagi Wangpo was the only son of King

Central Tibet, and the direct authority of the Phagmodru ruler was at best restricted to Ü (East Central Tibet). In Tsang (West Central Tibet) the Rinpungpa feudatories dominated. In 1481 Kunga Lekpa was deprived of the kingship by a council of ministers, after a series of invasions by Donyo Dorje of Rinpungpa. Instead his nephew Ngagi Wangpo was invited to take the position as king (gongma, "the high one"). At his enthronement he married Lady Dsongkhama. In 1488, they had a son called Ngawang Tashi Drakpa.^[1]

Continuing internal troubles

During his decade-long reign Ngagi Wangpo was honoured by the elites of

Ming Dynasty of China by this time had only the faintest knowledge of internal Tibetan politics, since they noted the accession and subsequent death of Ngagi Wangpo in 1495; they knew the king by the name Ban Aji Jiangdong Daba.^[3]

References

^ Giuseppe Tucci, Den T'er Dmar Po Gsar Ma. Rome 1971, p. 225-6.
^ Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet. A Political History. Yale 1967, p. 88.
^ Giuseppe Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls. Rome 1949, Vol. II, p. 693.

Preceded by Kunga Lekpa	Ruler of Tibet 1481–1491	Succeeded by Tsokye Dorje

[1] Giuseppe Tucci, Den T'er Dmar Po Gsar Ma. Rome 1971, p. 225-6.

[2] Tsepon W.D. Shakabpa, Tibet. A Political History. Yale 1967, p. 88.

[3] Giuseppe Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls. Rome 1949, Vol. II, p. 693.

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Appointment

Continuing internal troubles

See also

References